The Council of Polish Jewry has received 22 bales of clothing from the Federation of Polish Jews in Canada for distribution among refugees. On the suggestion of Ignacy Schwartzbart, part of the ...
Every place we went, there was someone who knew where the former cemetery or synagogue was,” David Kaufman told JNS.
A new book tells Janina Mehlberg’s story, after three custodians of her memoirs died without seeing them published. (JTA) — In December 1941, a petite, elegant woman left her home in Eastern Galicia, ...
“Wartime Poland was the closest thing to Hell on this earth,” Father Jan Januszewski, a Dachau survivor, told me shortly before he passed away in Key Largo, Florida, in 1987. When the Germans defeated ...
WARSAW, Poland — American photographer Chuck Fishman was just 21 when he began traveling behind the Iron Curtain in 1975 to document a Jewish community on the verge of dying out after centuries of ...
A new museum of Jewish history opens in Poland this week to refocus attention on a vibrant community that has lived in the country for centuries but whose history, for many, has been eclipsed by the ...
(RNS) — When you die, timing is everything. For example: If someone dies on Shabbat, that person might be a particularly righteous individual. That is what the Zohar, the cardinal work of Jewish ...
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''There is almost no Polish family without a szarlotka recipe,'' writes Laurel Kratochvila in ''Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond.'' She offers two in her new book, including this one, which ...
Though it borders the Hasidic hub of Williamsburg, the north Brooklyn community was never known for its Jewish population - ...
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